Reproductive and Primary Healthcare

The core of IHAO’s mission has been the provision of healthcare services, whether reproductive or primary healthcare to people living in secluded locations, ensuring their access to such essential services.

The war against ISIS led to the disruption of the healthcare system infrastructure in Iraq, and forced thousands of people to leave their homes and take refuge in camps and other governorates.

IHAO aims to restore and improve the healthcare system by working on two main fronts:

  1. Increase access to quality primary healthcare services by supporting primary healthcare centers and hospitals, and establishing several mobile medical clinics to provide lifesaving services, management of communicable and non-communicable diseases, and specialized and non-specialized reproductive healthcare services, and equipping the facilities with the essential lifesaving medicine, consumables and equipment.
  2. Strengthen the Iraqi health system by increasing the capacity of the Medical non-medical teams to improving the quality and delivery of services at all levels, including all the targeted governorates. This will ultimately strengthen the decentralized District Primary Health Care (PHC) System in Iraq, and ease the handover of humanitarian health service delivery.

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Objectives and Targets

Main Objectives are:

  • Provision of reproductive health services for extremely vulnerable groups of IDPs, returnees and host communities in Ninawa, Kirkuk, Salahaldin, Diyala, and Babil governorates.
  • Strengthen the RH services by increasing the capacity of the Medical team in primary health care centers and hospitals
  • decreasing maternal mortality rate by ensuring having a Smooth pregnancy and safe delivery and this is done with providing antenatal care service with regular visits to the centers, delivery rooms and postnatal care.
  • educational, comprehensive medical services to enable individuals to determine freely the number and spacing of their children and to select the means by which this may be achieved.
  • Providing gynecological consultations for various diseases including sexually transmitted ones.

Target

Females in the above mentioned governorates including IDPs, refugees, returnees, host communities to facilitate support to the most vulnerable persons.

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SAFETY OF MOTHER AND CHILD IS THE WAY TO BUILD A BETTER COUNTRY

Achievements

  • About 78,251 females received reproductive health services including treatment of sexually transmitted infections, ante-natal, and post-natal care, family planning, and Normal vaginal/caesarian deliveries, from January 2020 to August 202, distributed as the following: NINAWA 35,341, KIRKUK 22,441, DIYALA 2,889, SAD 15,171 and  BABIL 2409.
  • IHAO facilitated numerous workshops for guideline reviews related to reproductive health.

IHAO has facilitated various training for the health workforce of reproductive health.

Current Locations

Diyala:

  1. Saadyia PHCC

Kirkuk:

  1. Hawijia General Hospital

Ninawa :

  1. Baaj PHCC.
  2. Baaj (Mobile Clinic)
  3. Hadhar PHCC.
  4. Kahtanyia PHCC.
  5. Shura PHCC.
  6. Sinjar PHCC.
  7. Tal Banat PHCC.

Salahaldin:

  1. Al-Farhatiya (Mobile Clinic)
  2. Yathrib PHCC

Previous Locations

Anbar:

  1. Malahma PHCC.

Babil:

  1. Hay Al-Shurta PHCC.
  2. Qartiya PHCC.
  3. Taleyaa PHCC.

Diyala:

  1. Mansouryia PHCC.
  2. Muradyia PHCC.
  3. Qara Taba PHCC.

Kirkuk:

  1. Abbasi PHCC.
  2. Al-Riyadh PHCC.
  3. Shumeit PHCC.
  4. Taza Khurmato PHCC.

Nineveh :

  1. Ayadhia PHCC.
  2. Baashiqa PHCC.
  3. Namroud PHCC.

Salahaldin:

  1. Aziz Balad PHCC.
  2. Beiji PHCC.
  3. Hay Askari PHCC.
  4. Heichal Kabeer PHCC.
  5. Oweijila PHCC.
  6. Tuzkhrmatu PHCC.

ICON

Despite the liberation from the Islamic State (ISIL) Forces at the end of 2017, Iraq remains politically and socio-economically unstable, and therefore, the transition of the country from emergency humanitarian assistance to early recovery is facing several challenges. And According to HNO 2019 (Humanitarian needs overview) there is still a severe need of maintenance of PHC centers, improvement in the quality of healthcare services provided, and support in the provision of health care services and referrals alongside the DoH personnel.

IHAO in partnership with CORDAID and DAMA and under IHF funding Health Consortium was formed to provide immediate health assistance to vulnerable populations in 11 hard to reach areas across Iraq by responding to gap in primary health, mental health, and SGBV services. The project is delivering a Comprehensive Primary Healthcare Package (CPHP) of services to vulnerable IDPs, returnees, and host community members.

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WE WILL HELP THE PEOPLE TO RETURN BETTER THAN PREVIOUS

Objectives and Targets

To save lives and reduce morbidity among the IDPs and returnees through the provision of integrated primary, reproductive health services, and psychosocial support, for extremely vulnerable communities in Ninawa, Anbar, Kirkuk and Salahuddin governorates.

  • Increase access to quality primary healthcare services by implementing the Comprehensive Primary Health Care which including lifesaving services, management of communicable assuring the reporting mechanism, management of non- communicable diseases, specialized and none specialized reproductive health services, mental health, and psycho-social support services, management of GBV service provision, community health services, and equip the facility with the of essential lifesaving medicines, consumables, and equipment.
  • Strengthen the Iraqi health system by increasing the capacity of the Medical non- medical teams to improving the quality and delivery of services at all levels., including all the targeted governorates. This will ultimately strengthen the decentralized District Primary Health Care (PHC) System in Iraq, and ease the handover of humanitarian health service delivery.

Target Group:

The project was designed to target 154000 individuals directly and more than 771000 indirectly from the Vulnerable communities of Ninewa, Saladin, Kirkuk, and Anbar.

Achievements

Through these Locations IHAO managed to provide services for more than 35000 individuals:

  • About 17500 individual received Primary health care services including general medical consultations for non-communicable and chronic diseases, communicable diseases, and Capacity building for Health staff.
  • About 10500 females received reproductive health services including treatment of sexually transmitted infections, ante-natal and post-natal care, family planning and Normal vaginal deliveries.
  • About 6000 individual received Community health awareness messages especially on COVID-19 preventive measures.
  • About 1500 individual participated in psychosocial support sessions.

Locations

  • Awegylah primary health center located in Alshirqat district / Salahdin
  • Al Malahma primary health center located in Jazirrat Alkhaldiya in Alramadi district / Anbar.
  • Shareaa primary health care center Located in Alzab district / Kirkuk.
  • Mobile Medical Clinic in Halawa Village located in Al Hawiga district / Kirkuk.

Czech Republic

Provision of Life Saving Equipment and Essential Training Package to Jalawla Hospital

With funding from the Czech Republic, IHAO implemented a project to support Jalawlaa hospital in Diyala in 2021. The project included the provision of medical devices, medical equipment, some maintenance work as well as capacity building of the staff.

The project started through a series of meetings with the management of the hospital and the delivery room staff to discuss the needs of the delivery room and meetings with the public health director in Diyala department of health to discuss the means of cooperation between the two parties in order to provide the best quality of services to beneficiaries.

After assessing the needs of Jalawlaa hospital, the needed medical equipment for the proper operation of the delivery rooms were then delivered to the hospital. The support to Jalawla hospital also included conducting capacity building trainings on the subjects of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Family Planning, and the proper operation of the supplied medical devices

 

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IHF

Supporting Returnees and Out-of-Camp IDPS by Providing Comprehensive Life-Saving and Wellbeing Healthcare Services Across Iraq

Project Duration

1/08/2021 – 30/04/2022

Project Background

A consortium composed of Stitching Cordaid with five NGOs partners (2 international, 3 local) including (Première Urgence Internationale (PUI), INTERSOS, Doctors Aid Medical Activities (DAMA), Iraqi Health Access Organization (IHAO) and Access Aid Foundation (AAF) NGOs), will provide immediate health assistance to the vulnerable returnees and out of camps IDPs who are returned or displaced to 45 locations in eight governorates across Iraq, most of them are extremely difficult to reach. This project will respond to the gaps in primary health services, reproductive health, vaccination, nutrition, newborn care, mental health, sexual and physical violence. The project will provide a comprehensive wellbeing health care package (CPHP) of services to returns individuals and out of camps IDPs who are at risk. The health care package will include the provision of primary health care, mental health services and psychosocial support (MHPSS), referrals, training for sexual and gender-based violence, community outreach, outreach through community health workers (CHW), maintenance and restoration of primary health care centers, and a comprehensive program for capacity building for Ministry of Health employees and local health authorities. With Cordaid assuming the role of a major consortium, the programs will target underserved communities in the governorates of Nineveh, Kirkuk, Salah al-Din, Duhok, Sulaymaniyah, Erbil, Diyala and Anbar. Services will be provided through fixed primary health care centers and mobile medical teams in the targeted areas. Primary health care will include general medical consultations for non-communicable diseases, chronic and infectious diseases. Also, providing vaccination, and nutrition for children under five years of age and newborn care for returnees and IDPs areas by providing support to health teams affiliated with the Ministry of Health to reach newborns and children under five years of age to ensure that polio or measles vaccination and nutrition are taken targeting returnees and IDPs areas.

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SAVING LIVES AND REDUCING DISEASE RATES AMONG THE DISPLACED AND RETURNEES

Project Objectives

1- To save lives and reduce disease rates among the displaced and returnees’ populations by providing primary health care, reproductive health services, mental health and psychosocial support, vaccination and nutrition services for young children, newborn care for extremely vulnerable communities in the governorates of Nineveh, Anbar, Kirkuk, Dohuk, Salah al-Din, Diyala, Erbil, Dohuk and Sulaymaniyah.

2- Strengthen the Iraqi health system by increasing the capacity of the medical and non-medical teams to improve the quality and delivery of services at all levels, including all the targeted governorates.

Activities

  • Treatment of common diseases (outpatient consultations, laboratory investigations, prescription and provision of essential medicines)
  • Mental Health and psychosocial services
  • Reproductive Health Nutrition/immunization (vaccination of under-five children against polio/measles, screening and management of malnutrition)

 

Proposed total project beneficiaries: 38,949 ( direct beneficiaries) , 75474 ( total direct and indirect beneficiaries )

Locations

Ninewa – Qahtania

Anbar – Rahhalia

Kirkuk – Hilwa, Houd 6 – Shameet – Dhipat –  Shajara – Shareaa